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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is out in December (Picture: Warner Bros. Pictures)

Peter Jackson has revealed that The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug will be ‘darker’ than the previous film but the sequel won’t be presented at next month’s Comic-Con.

The film-maker told Empire that the new film wouldn’t be as funny as An Unexpected Journey.

He said: ‘This has less humour in it for sure. The first film was where we allowed ourselves to try and capture something of the children’s book, but it is really not appropriate to do that anymore.’

Jackson added: ‘Some pretty serious stuff is going down and it is important that we don’t undercut that now.’

He revealed the film won’t be represented at next month’s Comic-Con because he is still shooting Desolation of Smaug and the third and final film There and Back Again.

The director said in a new behind-the-scenes video blog: ‘We’re still shooting and we’re going to be shooting through the period of Comic-Con, so we looked at what actors we could send to make a really good panel.

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‘There wasn’t really anybody available, I can’t go, so faced with that was the prospect of recording some messages and having a really cool sizzle reel.

‘The problem is I’m so busy shooting that every hour I spend working on a really great reel for Comic-Con would be hours spent away from the vital job of making the second and third Hobbit films.’

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will be released on December 13 while There And Back Again is out in December 2014.